mickey [he/him]

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Cake day: September 11th, 2025

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  • All I’m saying is that other car companies don’t have to post statements like this on their website

    Q1: Why do we often see media reports with Toyota vehicles (such as Hilux, Land Cruiser 70) pictured in use by armed groups? Does Toyota consent to such use? A: Toyota does not consent to its vehicles being used as shown in such media reports. We can only assume that these vehicles come from back channels and are exchanged among individuals. Such unofficial dealings, particularly in used vehicles, are very difficult for an automaker to follow.





  • More dangerous for the occupants of the vehicle and occupants of other vehicles on the road edit: and pedestrians, cyclists, dogwalkers. I can’t control what level of injury may occur in a vehicle collision, or the physics of every vehicle involved or the reactions of other drivers to me making an unanticipated hard stop. I’m not going to risk human safety or nonconsensually risk the safety of others to save the life of a rabbit or a squirrel and I sincerely hope anyone reading this makes the same calculation when they are operating heavy machinery. You are free to disagree but I don’t think I’m hiding the ball on how I’m coming to this conclusion.










  • Wasn’t Australia’s gun confiscation in response to a mass shooting, the Port Arthur massacre? The idea that a government could accomplish something like that is alien to the USian mind. Canada’s recent ban is very sus to me coming as it did on the heels of a shooting spree perpetrated by someone who was clearly a government informant of some kind. But the complete lack of action of mass gun bans in the US after Sandy Hook as many people point out is good evidence that we’d never get something like that in the states. I think of how Serbia a year or two ago had two mass shootings, one at a school, and it resulted in nationwide protests and calls for the president to resign, in the US that’s a slow year.